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STAND B
94.3%
of words eliminated

How STAND performs

Played first, STAND removes about 94.3% of the possible-answer list on average and scores 5.04 bits of information. Its first-turn information ranks #2,231 out of 14,855 Wordle guesses tested. Roughly 34% of the time at least one letter lands in the right spot.

Tried against 1,858 past Wordle answers, STAND left an average of 134 possible answers standing after the first guess. Its largest group in that replay came on June 30, 2026, when the answer was PUPPY and 387 candidates survived. It has been the daily answer 2 times.

First-guess odds

OutcomeSTAND
First-turn solve*0.04%
At least one green34.1%
Any green or yellow83.6%
Whole row gray16.4%
Worst case answers left387

*Treating every word in the possible-answer list as equally likely.